Good Job King County Elections
Those down at King County Elections are feeling pretty good about themselves, or well, cautiously optimistic, following the recent primary election—which believe it or not was held a couple of weeks ago.There have been no major problems reported, and it appears that everything went off just as planned.
After last fall's governor's election exposed the flaws with the voting system, King County made an extra effort to fix all them problems. They even took out bus ads featuring Penny, an adorable pen, who helps remind voters to bring their ID and voter registration card. It also reminds people that if a pen with a face is eligible to vote in this county, then there are much bigger problems than, say, uncounted ballots being stored in a drawer.
Of course there were still some problems, but those were mostly caused by those pesky voters. The PI reported on some of the most common mistakes: "Using pencil, red pen or felt-tip markers that bleed through to the other side of the ballot, tearing or cutting the ballot with scissors, incompletely filling in an oval, circling or checking the oval rather than filling it in, writing in a name without filling in an oval," and of course voters who stepped in between a ballot and its mother.
